A Transcultural Criticism to Briceida

Abstract

In this article, we revise Briceida Cuevas Cob’s poetry book U yok’ol awat peek’ ti’ u kuxtal peek’ –El quejido del perro en su existencia– (1995) from a transcultural critical approach. Through this perspective we establish two reading positions: one involved with the criticism of regional racism –castas– in Yucatan peninsula and the other which makes aware about animal abuse, in specific stray dogs. In this way Cuevas Cob’s book is ahead regulations for animal care in Mexico and the emergency of critical animal studies. By exposing the case of Cuevas Cob’s poetry in her bilingual Mayan-Spanish version we propose that the scope of contemporary indigenous poetry in Mexico may be another way to express complex realities in our times.